I'd bet dollars to doughnuts Roasterlover is affiliated with the company and just looking to get some attention. His manner of post carefully skirts the rules.

Tell me I'm wrong Roasterlover?

I'm a maintenance tech. in a vinyl extrusion plant for a large manufacturing Co.. Recently (last year or two) we picked up a couple smaller extruders from China. Much less expensive than others. Even with $100,000 equipment Chinese made crap is still Chinese made crap. might as well have come from harbor freight. Cheap materials and a PITA to work on. If you intend to use something for a number of years, definitely better to pay the extra money and buy quality!

we will open samll cafe on May or June, so that i need to find 1-2kg coffee roaster for my shop. I need good quality..1kg electric video looks good and maybe will consider. Yesterday i received tim details spec..

Have you checked out the new Gene Cafe 1 KG roaster? Looks like a pretty good roaster for a small cafe. You'd want a reliable, quality built roaster for a commercial establishment, not Chinese junk that will need to be replaced in a couple years.

No offence to those using them- I'm sure for home use they would probably hold up fine. I know there are a number of happy owners around the forums. This isn't directed at you folks.

Have you checked out the new Gene Cafe 1 KG roaster? Looks like a pretty good roaster for a small cafe. You'd want a reliable, quality built roaster for a commercial establishment, not Chinese junk that will need to be replaced in a couple years.

No offence to those using them- I'm sure for home use they would probably hold up fine. I know there are a number of happy owners around the forums. This isn't directed at you folks.

How about cooling it on the "Chinese junk" BS until you have actually been up to your elbows in one?

Having designed and built (American made) process equipment for a living for almost 30 years, I think I'm qualified to gauge the build quality of just about anything. I wouldn't be importing these things and warranting them myself if they didn't stack up.

I'm easy to find, answer my own phone, and my door is usually open. Anytime you want to demo a machine long enough to form a valid opinion, one way or another, give me a call, come up to Minneapolis, and roast a batch or two. I'll send you home with a bag of pretty good coffee and likely a whole new perspective on "Chinese junk."

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